Monday, 29 February 2016

Ok
last week I mentioned that my brother in-law passed away, last night
while talking to mum she mentioned that there would be a viewing of
his body today this brought up a memory of a couple of different
blogs that I have read where the writer said they had viewed the body
of a loved on and both bloggers said it was not something they would
do again. They said that it wasn't like it is in movies or TV shows
the body was kind of grey and was not how they wanted to remember
their loved one.

So
I put he question of Facebook and some said it was a good experience
but most said it was not something they would recommend. I think a
lot has to do with the funeral people, some may take more care with
the body, making it look less dead and more like sleeping peacefully.
I, however, would not like to view a body but that is just me.

In
fact the only deceased person I have ever seen was Tim's mum, she was
still in the hospital when we arrived in Sydney she had only been
gone a short time.

For
those who are interested my brother in-law died of a massive stroke
in his sleep last Monday night, I guess that is an ok way to go, he
just went to sleep and died while asleep.

Saturday, 27 February 2016

Well
it is now around 5pm on Saturday afternoon, it has been another hot
day temps around 30°c and what have I done all day, well I went for
a walk when I got up around 7.30am then I pegged out Natasha's
washing and threw a load in to wash for myself before reading some
blogs not too many only about 20-24 then Tim wanted to set off
cockroach bombs so we went out.

Oh
yeah Jessica came and picked up Leo and Natasha she drove Natasha to
Charlie to do some shopping while Tim and I went out for lunch then
to look at caravans, lunch was nice but didn't find a caravan to our
liking and in our price range.

I
spent some time watching telly this afternoon breaking to unpack the
dishwasher and then have a nice relaxing bath. When I came out after
my bath Tim was watching some bloody TV show about animals, so now I
have decided to write a post because I am not interested in what he
is watching.

Yesterday
Tim got the results of his blood test, he is diabetic but only just
and was told he should be able to control it by diet alone, I am not
so sure, but we will see as it is Tim's diet is pretty good not like
mine.

Just
been looking at stuff on Facebook and saw this bucket list thing,
which is interesting but you know I don't have a bucket list, I am
not one to plan things or think I want to do this or that before I
kick the bucket. How about you do you have a bucket list, if so is it
a written list that you cross stuff off or just a thought in your
head about things you would like to do.

Do
you ever look at your life and regret things you have done, or not
done. I am sure there are things in my life that I regret but right
now I can't think of a single thing. I really do not think most
people can get through ones life without some regret, why because
when we are young we do silly things, sometimes dangerous things,
things when we think back we might think what the hell was I
thinking.

Have
you ever laid in bed at night and thought about how cool it would be
if someone gave you three wishes and you about what you would wish
for, I have but then I realise three wishes wouldn't do me any good
as the things I would wish for are not material things, I don't want
to have endless amount of money or win the lottery/lotto. Although it
would be cool if my mum was to win millions, not going to happen but
would me nice.

Friday, 26 February 2016

Well
today you are all lucky as I am doing a five things Friday post, why
well because I have the time to do so, but first for all those
interested we now know that Mick died of a massive stroke in his
sleep on Monday night. His funeral will be on Tuesday.

The
weather has cooled down a lot it was only around 30°c for most of
the day, although while I was waiting to get Blain it went up to 37°c
but since getting home it is ok to just have the front door open and
the ceiling fan going.

Thursday, 25 February 2016

Well
hello everyone it is Thursday afternoon here in Newie, temp while I
was sitting in the car waiting for Blain this afternoon was 48°c,
yeah talk about hot, hot enough to melt or cook an egg. I am glad to
be home in my nice cool air conditioned house, and yes I do have an
air conditioned car but I do not sit with the motor running in the
car while I am waiting for the boys. I will tell you who doesn't
have air conditioning working in her car, Natasha that is who.

Yesterday
I wanted to do a post but with going to see nan and then to the shops
and what not, didn't get it done before I had to leave to pick the
boys up and when I got home from getting them I got stuck into mum's
ironing. Yes mum's ironing, she has difficulty doing it lately and it
was piling up so I offered to bring a basket home and do it for her,
it was all dad's shirts well there was 3 items belonging to mum but
the rest was dad's shirts.

This
afternoon I have both Blain and Leo here although they are both
outside playing, Blain wanted to go and see why his friend wasn't at
school. Although I don't think the friend is that much of a friend,
as I have mentioned before his “friends” have ditched him and
yesterday this one so called friend got pissed with Blain told him he
was wasting his time and punched him. Blain came home upset and was
crying and such. However, today Blain thinks it will all be good so
he and Leo went to see the friend and Leo came back upset not sure
what happened but both boys are home now and gone off to play Xbox.

In
other news heard of Tuesday night that my brother in-law (Mick) died,
his sisters found him at his flat dead in bed, he had died in his
sleep, what he died of is as yet unknown, well unknown by me I
suspect that an autopsy will be done due to it being a sudden death.

Now
I was never that close to Mick I liked him, he had faults but who
doesn't, his marriage to my sister didn't last very long she left him
for his cousin but really I know nothing about why she left him or
what went wrong. I know that he was a big part of her life and the
lives of her children for many years, my sister and Mick had an
on/off relationship right up till the got married and then it went
downhill.

My
sister had been told that his family do not want her to attend his
funeral, which I think is wrong but she has said if it is going to
cause trouble she will not attend. However, one of his sisters has said it is ok, she is hi wife and if she wants to attend she can, so she will be going to the funeral. Also I am annoyed that she found
out about his passing via Facebook, yeah no one bothered to ring her
and tell her she read about it on Facebook (according to mum).

Well
I am going to post this and then sit back and watch some telly for a
bit as it is too hot to do much of anything, although I did manage to
do a load of washing get it on the line and dried and not have got it
off the line and yeah it was bloody hot outside doing that.

Tuesday, 23 February 2016

I
have to get a new battery for my mouse, well I think that is the
problem even that or the mouse is stuffed, I find after I stop using
it for a bit it kinda freezes and I have to move it about and wait
3-5 minutes before it starts working again and that is so bloody
annoying.

Well
it is another stinking bloody hot day here in Newie, this morning
after I took Leo to school I went to the doctors, I had an
appointment for yesterday at 9.30am but forgot about it till I got a
message via message bank 101 on the house phone about how I missed
it, anyway when I got the message I rang the surgery and made another
appointment for today at 9.30am but when I get there, there is no
record of an appointment for this morning, I made another appointment
for next Monday.

So
since Tim is at work all day when I got home I parked the car in the
carport where Tim usually parks his motorbike, however, due to the
rubbish bins being there I was a bit far over on the neighbours side,
but she no longer has a car, although she has two daughters with cars
who often turn up during the day, but I thought if they wanted me to
move the car all they have to do is ask. I only parked there because
of how bloody hot it is, and the fact that I knew I would have to go
out again. Although I didn't think I would be going out till I had to
leave to get the boys from school, but as she is leaving for work
Natasha asks if I could go to Coles and get her some chocolate milk
and of course not any chocolate milk but Oak she will not drink any
other brand and of course Oak is the most expensive brand.

Ok
I had to stop writing and go pick up the boys from school, I couldn't
find Leo he wasn't waiting were he is suppose to wait, he said it was
because I forgot to tell him this morning and he is right I did
forget and yes it is only the second week of me getting him from the
back gate, so partly my fault.

Of
course when he got into the car the fighting with Blain started over
nothing and continued till I dropped him off at his place. Also had
Natasha on the phone going off about something, not sure what but
something happened at school with Blain, nothing serious but I think
he got into some kind of trouble at school. This I know because he
took his mum off speaker so I couldn't hear what she was saying.

Before
I left to go to the school I put a couple of chicken gordon bleu in
the oven on low as I am getting hungry I didn't have breakfast so had
brunch instead and that was 5 hours ago so feeling like food. I am
doing some roast potatoes with it only the frozen ones so no work
just out of freezer into air-fryer, I do like my air-fryer much
quicker then the oven.

In
other news today I wore a short dress over a pair of shorts not an
outfit I wear very often as usually if I am home I am in shorts and
T-shirt if I am going out I wear ¾ pants and T-shirt.

Monday, 22 February 2016

Today's post is written by my eldest daughter, I am sharing it here so she can get feedback from people other then family.

How
I learnt to communicate about my child’s day at school

Last
year my eldest daughter started school at the tender at of 5. I knew
she was ready to go, the boredom she experienced everyday was
admittedly getting on my last nerve and I could no longer afford to
send her to daycare 3 days a week, along with her little sister twice
a week.

When
your child is in a loving and caring daycare such as the one my
children attend, you are able to take time to talk to their educators
and discover what your child did for the day. The child to educator
ratio is much lower than that of a primary school and therefore your
child is constantly being observed. Especially when your child
attends at 72 place centre and there is well over 20 educators coming
and going during the day.

The
educator assigned to be the primary carer for your child while you
are away tends to be the one who observes them while they play. They
take note on what your child did and give you their professional
opinion on how your child is developing.

But
what happens when your child starts school? How do you as a first
time school parent communicate with your child about what happened
during their day? It took me a while to figure it out, and
annoyingly it the answer was right under my nose.

Every
child is born to be curious. When you sit them in front of a box,
the child will undoubtedly look inside the box to see what they can
discover. If they find blocks they will build, while pencils and
paper will allow them to draw, and dolls allow role playing. When
children watch a television show or read a book this will lead to
questions.

When
my daughter came home from school each day she would always want to
role play. And it was always mums and dads. But after a while it
turned to teachers and students. My school age daughter would
pretend she was the teacher and have her little sister play the roles
of all the students in the classroom. Looking back at it now, this
was how my child was informing me of how her day went at school. She
would have her little sister try and count to 10 or say the alphabet.
When it came to sport there was a lot of running and kicking of a
ball.

I
was never sure on what my child’s favourite thing to do in class
was, but once again it was right under my nose. After a few weeks I
realized the two things she like to do while she was pretending she
was in class; It was standing in front of her peers and telling them
about her weekly news while the other was sitting in class waiting
for the teacher to say her name so she could answer a question.
There were many times when I found myself pretending to be the
teacher and asking spelling or math questions.

I
know it can be boring and tedious sometimes to play the same games
with your children each day, but have you ever asked yourself maybe
this is how your child is trying to tell you what they did during the
day or how they are feeling?

Recently
I have found myself playing with Lego blocks with my youngest
daughter. She likes to pretend they are people, in most cases these
people are mums, dads, sisters, brothers, cousins and her darlings.
While we were playing with the blocks she would place a small block
on the bottom of a bigger block and pretend there was a baby in the
tummy. I had no idea where she got this idea from. She’s the
youngest and to the best of my knowledge has never understood that
babies come from a mummy’s tummy. After reading one of the weekly
summaries sent home from her daycare I noticed that one of the
educators in her room is pregnant.

For
a long time I dreaded playing these role playing games with my girls.
It was always the same thing every single day and after a while I
wanted to be more physically active instead of sitting in the one
spot saying the same words over and over again. I will even admit
there were times when I tried so hard to change their state of mind
so they would want to play something else. I now understand that
this is how children try to grasp what is happening in their life and
how try to figure out what questions they should be asking.

Today,
twelve months on, and I have discovered the best way to find out what
happens in my child’s day to day life at school is to ask her what
kind of questions the teacher asks and which friends she played with
that day. I get a much better response from her and now have a
better understanding on how to talk to my children about their day.
It’s amazing how much a simple role playing game can tell you about
what is going on in your child’s growing mind.

Thursday, 18 February 2016

Hi
everyone, I have not been 100% the last couple of days, this morning
at 10am I ended up going back to bed for what turned out to be 3
hours because I was just not with it. Anyway I am starting to feel
more like me and less like not me, and yeah I know how much sense
that makes but what the hell, if you know me you know I often don't
make a lot of sense.

I
think the fact that today started out overcast and some what wet
contributed to me feeling like shit but that is the past and what is
the point of living in the past, the time to live in is the here and
now, not the past nor the future. You may think how can someone live
in the future, well if a body is always trying to predict what is
going to happen they are trying to live in the future. Also no point
in going around thinking “what if”, that achieves nothing.

As
all who know me I am a drifter, not thinking too much if at all about
the future, yes I look forward to things that I know will happen in
the future such as a planned holiday or event. However, I usually
just take each day as I find it and roll with the flow, I can tell
you that when I wake up I am a get dressed straight away person, I
know some people like my mum who wanders around in her nightie for a
while after getting up, me not so much the longest I seem to stay in
my nightie is maybe 5-10minutes after getting up.

Also
were some people like to have a cup of coffee or tea after getting up
I like a drink of Pepsi Max or Coke Zero first thing, my daughter
Natasha goes off at me saying I should have milk or juice first
thing but recently and by recently I mean now as I write this, I have
realised that it is just how I get started for the day and I will be
telling her this and telling her to back off.

In
other news damn Leo is growing up, so is Blain come to think of it,
but first Leo then Blain, so Leo is now really good to drop off at
school I just drive to the drop off zone and he gets out and goes and
this morning instead of going to the drop off zone I went to the back
gate and dropped him off and he was great a kiss and a hug and he was
gone. Of an afternoon I will be going to the back gate and going in
to get him this saves me like 5 minutes or maybe a bit more as by
going to the back gate I don't get stuck at two sets of traffic
lights.

Now
onto Blain last week he asked me if he could go to a friends house
after school, he wanted to ride his scooter to his friends place and
I know for many that would be so what no big deal but being the first
time he wanted to do this me and his mum was a bit worried. However,
since Tim and I bought the boys 2-ways aka walkie talkie for
Christmas I said I would like him to take one with him and he did or
should say does as he goes up to his friends place most afternoons
and I can tell Blain likes taking them he checks in when he is half
way there and then again when he arrives and if his friend isn't home
he lets me know he is coming home, have to say one of the best things
Tim has suggested.

Speaking
of Blain this afternoon he asked me if I knew how to make him a
milkshake and of course I do, I said it is just milk, ice cream and
flavouring and I can add an egg as well. He naturally turned his nose
up at adding an egg but guess what I added an egg and didn't tell
him, you can not taste the egg but it gives you a lot of good stuff
and turns a normal milkshake into a much healthier milkshake. My mum
use to make egg-flips all the time when I was a child and I made them
for my girls when they wouldn't eat much. He has now had 2 egg-flips
one chocolate and one strawberry.

Tuesday, 16 February 2016

Nothing much at all,
but it has been another bloody hot day here in Newie.

Anyway been thinking
today about how I don't wear shoes inside my home but also cannot go
barefoot outside of the home.

While at home I just
walk around barefoot or in winter I will wear socks inside. However,
I do not like to even walk just outside the front door to the seat to
sit and talk to Natasha or Tim while they are smoking without shoes
on my feet.

This made me think
about when did I start to wear thongs, I don't remember, I may ask
mum when I speak to her tonight or tomorrow. The thing is that
Natasha and Jessica wear thongs a lot and Kathy does as well but
Kathy is more a flat shoe type of person, whereas her sisters are
not.

Natasha for many years
was one of those girls who would wear heels all the bloody time
except when she was at home. Now, however, she wears thongs a lot and
she wears joggers a lot she needs to wear enclosed shoes for walk
like most people.

Jessica use to wear
super high platform shoes but now she wears a semi-flat enclosed
shoe most of the time.

My niece Kelli doesn't
like wearing shoes at all even when she goes shopping, at times she
will put on a pair of shoes but they end up annoying her and she
takes them off and walks around barefoot.

Of course all children
are expect to wear the proper footwear to school, here is is usually
black shoes with either white or grey socks, been that way as long as
I can remember. However, when my mum was a school girl she didn't
school shoes in fact she didn't shoes to school at all till she
started high school. Now days we can't imagine sending our child to
school barefoot even if it was allowed.

Now back to what I was
saying about thongs, I wear thongs a lot have done most of my life
but out of my 4 grandchildren, none, zero,nadda wear thongs which to
be honest is somewhat annoying as thongs are pretty cheap to buy and
allow the foot to breathe and sweat and are in my opinion pretty
good. Unless you are doing a lot of walking then not so good for me,
I find if I was to try walking any distance in thongs my calves start
to ache, my sister Sandra was saying only last Friday that she has
the same problem if she tries to walk a distance in thongs.

My feet sweat a lot so
I do like to be barefoot, but also because of how much my feet sweat
I have to wear socks or stockings with my shoes (except thongs) or I
will end up with blisters on my feet. In fact the last week or so I
have been wearing booties to bed because I have this one toenail that
keeps catching on the sheets and I feel if I am not careful I will
end up with torn sheets.

Monday, 15 February 2016

Hello
all it is now Monday and yes I know I have not posted since Thursday
but Friday I am busy as and over the weekend I am doing other stuff
like answering letter which I have had to do by hand as my printer is
out of ink and yes I have been asking Tim for money to get the ink
for like 2 months but the other day while doing a letter it stop and
came up with a message saying I was out of black ink,

It
is another bloody hot day here in Newie, this morning when my alarm
went off I didn't want to get up and in fact decided to lay there for
5 minutes more which of course turned into 30 minutes.

When
I did manage to drag myself out of bed I naturally got dressed and
went for a walk but had to cut it short as I was so very tired, when
I was only a few feet from the back gate Leo came running out asking
if I was ok and saying he was glad that I came back home safely.

I
wanted to go to the library today but just couldn't get motivated to
do anything, the house although is nice and clean but that is thanks
to Natasha who cleaned and vacuumed out complaining about one thing
after another.

Tim
is off work today he put in for a sick day as he didn't get home till
2.30am and had to go and have blood taken, he is being tested for
diabetes.

I
of course will have to go and get the boys from school in an hour or
so, I can tell you I really want to go to sleep but of course don't
have time to do that and by the time I get back from getting the boys
it will be too late in the day for a nap.

We
all know that it was Valentine's Day yesterday and you know what I
did, I made a chicken and bacon pasta bake for lunch, although
Natasha was unable to be here for lunch as she was working doing
rail. Tim and I don't do anything for Valentine's Day as a rule and
yesterday was the same, Tim always says he doesn't need a special day
to show me he loves me and for the most part I agree.

29
years ago Tim said I gave him the best Valentine's Day present ever,
aka, Natasha she was born at around 11pm on Valentine's Day weight
7lb 13oz she was my biggest baby and my smallest daughter now she is
only 4'7” and oh so tiny.

Let's
go back to Leo for a moment he told me on the way to school that he
thinks I am the best nanna, so soft and cuddly and kind and loving
and he likes me taking him to school.

Yesterday
afternoon Jessica rang me crying that her house was disgusting and
had mould everywhere and she didn't know how to clean it so I went
over and helped her out, there was not much mould at all and the way
she carried on was ridiculous. I got mad with her and told her to get
a grip she wasn't helping and really how hard is it to clean. Both
Natasha and I have suggested to her that she might want to pay
someone to come in and clean her house for a couple of hours a
fortnight, to which she says “I don't want strangers in my house”
ok then start doing it yourself. She wants to pay Natasha to clean
but since Natasha is a cleaner from Monday to Friday she doesn't want
to clean on the weekend she would just rather chill and do nothing. I
get that but I don't think Jessica does.

Damn
I am feeling unwell, I really want to sleep but can't I have to leave
in 15 minutes to go get the boys from school.

Thursday, 11 February 2016

Many years ago I took my grandparents for granted, they were always there, I spent a fair amount of time with them as a child, in fact just after I was born my parents lived with mum's parents for a few months. Of course you all know that I try and go to see my nanna each week, she will be 95 this year and even though I love her and like going to see her, it would be a blessing if she passed away as she has no life she just exists from day to day. It wasn't till I became a grandparent that I realised how wonderful it is to have grandchildren, I love all 4 of mine the same and different at the same time. As most will know I now have my eldest grandson Blain living here with me and pappa (Tim) and of course his mum. So this is a post for grandparents.

Wednesday, 10 February 2016

Tuesday, 9 February 2016

Hi
all there was no post yesterday, why? I have no idea other then the
fact that I was busy in the morning had to go to the chemist to get a
script filled, although when I get to the chemist I find out that I
do not have a script for the medication that I needed, so they lent
me a script so Thursday will see me off to the doctor to get
prescriptions.

Yesterday
saw both Blain and Leo having swimming carnivals, both boys had a
good time and the weather was great not too hot and not wet so pretty
good.

This
morning I over slept and didn't wake up till Leo came in and woke me,
so no morning walk as when I got up it was raining and I don't walk
in the rain.

You
know when I was a child I do not remember people walking just for the
sake of walking people walked to and from different places, I always
walked to school unless it was wet and sometimes if it was stinking
bloody hot. I do not remember my mum going for a walk just for the
sake of it.

I
used to walk my girls to and from school, this I did because I was
worried about them walking on their own and told them that I was
walking with them for the exercise but as I just said that wasn't the
whole truth. If they thought I was walking with them because I was
worried about them they would get their knickers in a knot.

I
like to go for my walk early in the morning and I like to go alone,
no music or anyone with me to annoy me just me all alone. I usually
like to think about how cool it would be if I won Loto, how I would
spend the money and such.

Do
you remember people walking for the sake of walking when you were a
child?

Of
course most days by the time I get home I am in pain, a lot of pain
with my back some days it is an effort to put one foot in front of
the other but most days I manage it.

Somehow
my alarm clock has been changed the time isn't right and the alarm
isn’t going off which is somewhat annoying, I will have to take
some time today and look at it and see if I can fix it. This morning
I woke up to Leo saying morning nan rise and shine. It wasn't that
late though it was around 6.50am but still didn't have the time for a
walk and now I will post his before I go and take Leo to school.

Saturday, 6 February 2016

Hello
everyone, hope your day is or has been a good one, we are having
another cool wet day here, I was lucky to get my walk done with
before it started to rain.

Tim
and Jessica drove to Williamtown/Newcastle airport to pick up a
rental car, Jessica would like to learn to drive a manual so earlier
in the week Tim rang around and found some place that hired manual
cars. Anyway the get there and are told it would cost $400 for the
day what the hell, no bloody way they were paying that type of money,
they were told because it was being paid for with debt card not a
credit card that it cost so much. Tim told them to forget it he
wasn't paying that much money. What a waste of time.

This
morning I have 3 out of 4 grandchildren here, Kathy is also here but
she is having a nap, the girls have been keeping her awake a lot at
night and really doing her head in with not listening to her and
demanding her attention all the damn time. She rang me while I was
out walking this morning and she sounded terrible, I told her she
could come over and have a nap here if she wanted to and she did.

Tim
said he had a terrible night not being able to sleep and waking up a
lot during the night and at 3am when he woke up he realised that
Natasha wasn't home so he rang her to see where she was, he was
worried about her as she is usually home long before 3am. Nothing
was wrong it is just the woman she works with, she is a gossip and
will stand around talking why Natasha does the work which as you can
imagine pisses Natasha off no end. So she is somewhat tired today.

Tim
decided that he wanted to turn his hand to making a meal using the
slow cooker, he has prepared everything it is just chicken legs and
veggies with leek all mixed together in the slow cooker. I have never
tired leek so have no idea if I like it or not but I am all for
giving it a try. I told Tim if he is using the slow cooker he has to
get it in and started before lunch so it will be ready for tea
time/dinner time.

I
have to take back a bottle of Pepsi Max I bought yesterday as when I
opened it last night it was flat as, so I rang the store straight
away and complained and let them know I would take it back today
couldn't do it yesterday afternoon didn't feel like going out again.
I like to ring straight away so I have no dramas when I take it back
the following day.

Ok
started this in the am but finishing it in the pm so all I am going
to add is that I am now posting and then I will either read some more
blogs or answer some letters.

Thursday, 4 February 2016

After
some really hot days we have today quiet cool and very wet, but of
course it has to be like that since this morning we had the lounge
suite cleaned which of course means I cannot sit in my armchair and
put my feet up. I am expecting it to take hours for the lounge to
dry also why he was here Tim had him clean the carpet in the lounge
and hallway so wet carpet, wet lounge and raining so all in all not
feeling a happy chappy.

This
morning we went to see nan, yes I know it is Thursday but we have
been going on Thursday instead of Wednesday as dad has appointments
of Wednesday and mum would feel to rushed if we went to see nan.

Leo
starts his swimming lessons tomorrow I hope all goes well for him, I
sent Jessica a message reminding her that they start and he will need
to take swimmers or boardies for him, I have a beach towel he can
take with him.

As
everyone might have realised that the photo I posted yesterday was
the bed Tim made in his office for Leo to use when he sleeps over,
Leo really likes the bed he likes how he can sit up in bed and play
his Xbox or watch cartoons.

Tuesday, 2 February 2016

Today
we had a not here moment/event, by here I mean in Newcastle in
Australia and the thing we didn't expect to happen was a bomb scare.
Yes you read that right, a bomb scare, someone rang in a bomb threat
to Blain's school and the school did post an evacuation notice via
the school app but neither Natasha or Jono have the app so only heard
about it via Facebook. Ok I think someone mentioned it to Jono and he
rang Natasha and she rang the school but it was 2 hours after the
event. I told Natasha that she and Jono should get the app and
someone should help me get it too.

Of
course there was no bomb and the police did a though job of checking
the school out, when I picked Blain up and asked him about it, he
said it was just a drill so they would know what to do if there was
an emergency. I think the school would have told the students that so
they would not panic.

In
other news Leo went to see his paediatrician,
he has grown in height and gained a bit of weight so all good, she
also said maybe we will need to increase his midday medication by
half a tablet or give him a half tablet when he gets home from school
she is going to talk to Jessica about this. Jessica wasn't able to
attend as she had other plans that could not be changed, don't ask me
what I have no idea but she is a grown woman and mother and I don't
need to know everything she does.

So
anyway because of his appointment Leo had the day off school, I
thought she could had sent him for a couple of hours but she chose
not to so he was with me all day.

After
school this afternoon Blain wanted me to take him to the shops so he
could buy his mum a birthday present, he had saved up his pocket
money to get her something, he bought her a watch he couldn't get a
dark blue on so instead he bought a pick one, he also bought her a
cushion with a smiley face on it. He even had enough money to buy
himself some action figures, Superman, Spiderman & Batman he
likes his super heroes.

It
has been a hot day, not stinking hot, just normal hot but still felt
it while sitting in the car waiting for Blain to get out.

Monday, 1 February 2016

Well hello February,
and what a nice hot day it is to start off the new month, this
morning I handed in the note and money for Leo to have swimming
lessons this term at school he will be going on Fridays. I hope he
likes it as it cost $88 for the swimming an even if he decides he
doesn't want to do it his mum can't get her money back, yes Jessica
paid for the swimming I was just the one to go to the school and hand
over the money. Also when I was at the office I asked if they had
EFTPOS but no had to have cash, lucky I had the cash on me and was
able to get the money out of the account later.

I found a couple flag
posts in my unposted blog posts folder, so today I will use one of
them, why because my gut hurts and I am feeling so bloody tired and
really my brain feels like it is too much work to think about stuff
today.

So
we have the United Nations Flag, the 24th
of October is Untied Nations Day and on that day the flag is flown
here in Australia. If there is only one flagpole it replaces the
Australian flag for the day.

The
United Nations was founded on the 24th
October 1945 and Australia was one of the original 50 nation
signatories. There are currently 193 members of the United Nations.

Australia
has been an active member of the United Nations and its various
agencies and has contributed military and police forces to a number
of peace-keeping missions.

Australia
was one of the 16 United Nations member countries that participated
in the 1950-53 Korean Conflict in support of South Korea.